Your Eye History and Laser Surgery

[Shu]

Could not think of a more crappier name for the topic, but I went ahead and created it anyway.

So anyways I was just throwing this out there for those that have any type of ocular (eye) history in which regards nearsightedness or farsightedness in which you have to wear glasses or contacts.

To me, I was thinking about it today and I'm freakin sick of the same damn routine I've had since I was 9 years old. Well if you were diagnosed early in life like I was with nearsighted vision, you were given your first dorky pair of glasses. Further on in life, when your eyes had enough endurance so to speak behind them, you were either given the option to wear soft or hard contact lenses.

Naturally your optician gave you the warnings of sleeping in your contacts (if they were non sleepers) and storing the properly and then cleaning them before putting them in..

Well I have wrestled with it for many years.. and have learned my lessons with a good bit of pink eye from sleeping in them and borderline eye ulcers, but it's because I'm so sick of not having 20/20. Without my glasses or contacts I'm crap for seeing anything, so if I leave without an extra pair of contacts and also leave my glasses at home.. and something say were to happen to my contacts I have in.. I'm screwed!

So my bottom line is.. for those people who have eye problems.. are you thinking of getting corrective laser surgery to your eyes, given you have the cash? Or are you going to stick it out and wear thicker and thicker glasses and renewing prescriptions of your contacts?

(for me I can't get laser surgery until my eyes are the same vision for 3 years straight, but then again I don't have the money to shell out quite yet either)

 

[Davey Gaga]

Definitely.

Glasses and contact lenses are the bane of my fucking life. I currently pay £22.50 a month for my contacts and we've worked out that going through Vision Express (who deal with my eyes just now) for laser eye would work out at payments of £20 per month for four years. Laser eye lasts for roughly 10 years, so that's 6 years of saving money and 10 years free from hassle!

Everything from not being able to crash at someone's house without taking my contact case/solution + glasses (not really practical when at the pub/gig, is it?) to having to get up that little bit more early to put them in every morning, to the general appearance of glasses makes me want to get laser eye. They keep saying that it's best not to because they aren't aware of the side-effects, yet, and I'm so desperate that I'd be glad to be a guinea pig.

 

[Mitsuki]

I'm not actually sure about eye surgery. I've seen how the process is done and it kinda freaked me out. So even if I have the money, I still probably won't do it (unless I suddenly act out of impulse one day for the hell of it). But I do share your pain. I wear both glasses and contact lenses and it really is a pain. One, I have a habit of misplacing my glasses and every single day, I always have to ask THE question of the day, "Hey guys, did you see my glasses anywhere?" And naturally, it's hard for me to find my glasses because I have blurred vision, so I would need someone to help me find it.

As for contact lenses, I also have problems falling asleep with them on. I'm not sure, but I think that may be the reason why I fall asleep so damn quickly, especially when I'm in a car. Seriously, put me in a car and sometimes 10 - 40 minutes later, I'm knocked out. It's been happening a lot more recently and it's not like I'm tired or sleepy, but it kinda forces my eyes to close and then I fall asleep. I'm kinda thinking of seeing a doctor for this because it's quite concerning. For instance, we'll finally arrive at our destination. I wake up, and we'll do whatever we need to do at the store or whatever. We come back to the car and sometimes 5 minutes later, I'm out. >.> And I find that so weird! I had the energy and everything, so why am I falling asleep so easily? I'm blaming it on my contacts. But yeah, a lot of people have noticed lately and they find it so weird...

So I'm actually wanting to get rid of my contacts for some time now, but I also don't want to resort wearing just glasses the whole day. So if eye surgery is available to me, I might take it - depends, if I'm feeling brave, I guess. But I really don't like thinking about it.

 

[Shu]

I'm not sure, but I think that may be the reason why I fall asleep so damn quickly, especially when I'm in a car. Seriously, put me in a car and sometimes 10 - 40 minutes later, I'm knocked out. It's been happening a lot more recently and it's not like I'm tired or sleepy, but it kinda forces my eyes to close and then I fall asleep. I'm kinda thinking of seeing a doctor for this because it's quite concerning. For instance, we'll finally arrive at our destination. I wake up, and we'll do whatever we need to do at the store or whatever. We come back to the car and sometimes 5 minutes later, I'm out. >.> And I find that so weird! I had the energy and everything, so why am I falling asleep so easily?

Sounds like you are fatigued without knowing it or have low blood pressure (which I don't know if anything has to do with it). At first I was laughing, because it did sound funny, but now I see that is a bit strange to be falling asleep like that.

Imagine if you had to travel somewhere at night and maybe it was 2-3 hours away.. you or your partner behind the wheel and bam.. you pass out. Now that I think about it, that sounds bad, I'd get it checked up.

Everything from not being able to crash at someone's house without taking my contact case/solution + glasses (not really practical when at the pub/gig, is it?)

jesus I think that happens 70% of the time to me, for some reason in the back of my mind I believe everyone wears contacts. Then what happens next? Well I get to any of my friends.. and hey.. I'm stuck with putting my contacts in a sink full of water. In college going to frat parties and house parties I always had to be selfaware of not staying over.

The worst part for me is I've had this Quality Assurance job now for around 3 years. So I sit behind a computer 8 hours a day debugging C#, C++ codes and then .net interfaces (on days I work since I'm taking classes again on the side). My eyes get so strained, that at the end of the day they have to be taken out no matter what (at around 5-6 pm). I'm not a fashion guru or nothing but my glasses make me look 10 years older, so I don't like wearing them outside my house. No to mention 5 cats? Cat dander = hell on my eyes..

So yes to lasers for me.

 

[Davey Gaga]

I'm not actually sure about eye surgery. I've seen how the process is done and it kinda freaked me out. So even if I have the money, I still probably won't do it (unless I suddenly act out of impulse one day for the hell of it). But I do share your pain. I wear both glasses and contact lenses and it really is a pain. One, I have a habit of misplacing my glasses and every single day, I always have to ask THE question of the day, "Hey guys, did you see my glasses anywhere?" And naturally, it's hard for me to find my glasses because I have blurred vision, so I would need someone to help me find it.

Hahahah, on that note - I bought transition lenses for the summer time (I have bad hayfever) and, what did I do? I lost them. £170s worth gone at a drunken gig. I had to pay the same again next week to replace them, only to be told "Oh, I know someone who found your glasses".

As for contact lenses, I also have problems falling asleep with them on. I'm not sure, but I think that may be the reason why I fall asleep so damn quickly, especially when I'm in a car. Seriously, put me in a car and sometimes 10 - 40 minutes later, I'm knocked out. It's been happening a lot more recently and it's not like I'm tired or sleepy, but it kinda forces my eyes to close and then I fall asleep. I'm kinda thinking of seeing a doctor for this because it's quite concerning. For instance, we'll finally arrive at our destination. I wake up, and we'll do whatever we need to do at the store or whatever. We come back to the car and sometimes 5 minutes later, I'm out. >.> And I find that so weird! I had the energy and everything, so why am I falling asleep so easily? I'm blaming it on my contacts. But yeah, a lot of people have noticed lately and they find it so weird...

So I'm actually wanting to get rid of my contacts for some time now, but I also don't want to resort wearing just glasses the whole day. So if eye surgery is available to me, I might take it - depends, if I'm feeling brave, I guess. But I really don't like thinking about it.

Sleeping with lenses in your eyes is meant to be detrimental to your optical health, too - oxygen starvation, et cetera.

jesus I think that happens 70% of the time to me, for some reason in the back of my mind I believe everyone wears contacts. Then what happens next? Well I get to any of my friends.. and hey.. I'm stuck with putting my contacts in a sink full of water. In college going to frat parties and house parties I always had to be selfaware of not staying over.

Aye, same - taking out your lenses whilst drunk isn't a fun thing, neither is expecting to find them elsewhere.

Because I'm allergic to the typical solution, I have to use hydrogen peroxide (an acidic substance) to disinfect my lenses. There's a catalyst that neutralises it in the container but it takes 7 hours to do this. I once left my lenses upside down one night, put them in the next morning to discover the acid hadn't been neutralised and that my lenses were soaked in this acid...I burned my eyes. <_<

Ugh, even SWIMMING is annoying because you shouldn't have water near them, nevermind chlorine, so it's either glasses in the pool or no sight whatsoever.

I'm definitely getting them when I'm 18. xD

 

[Laura Moon]

I have to wear glasses since I was 12 and from a couple of years I use contacts. I'm very careful about not sleeping with them, but sometimes it happens. My mother doesn't want me to use the kind you can wear also when sleeping because she's worried this would ruin my eyes even further, but my boyfriend has used them for three years and nothing happened, soon I'll buy a couple of these and try them.
I don't like spending money for the contacts, but I found a shop who has his contacts made specifically for him, very good quality and for a couple of monthly lenses I spend only 15€ being sure they won't give me trouble.

Since I'm very short-sighted (-4.50 and -3.75 diopters, and still getting worse; I lose at least 0.25-0.50 from each eye every year)) and without glasses or lenses I can't see a thing further than 1 m, I always tought that as soon as my myopia gets stabilized I'll take the surgery, but only if it gets a lot worse. I think a life without glasses and contacts would be wonderful, but since many people with myopia are able to read comfortably without eyeglasses even in advanced age and the surgery removes this advantage, I'd like to not take the surgery unless it becomes necessary.